Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-10-31
FOB TIE GOvD OF THE PEOPLE.
Health, Lsng Life and hsppiness to Lsw-
abiding PeOple-Drin king Water.

Health, Long Life and hsppiness to q Lsw-
abiding People-Dripking Water.
BY PROFESSOR W HUDSON OF TRINITY
UNIVERSITY.
It is probable that much of the sick
ness with which some members of the
human family are sometimes afflicted may
De truthfully attributed to impure drink
| ing weteT. It is fact that water par
| takes more or less OF the vegetable, ami
NAL and mineral matter through which it
percolstes. Water that tastes Of am-
mnnis has passed through some decOm-
posed vegetable and animal matter, and
such kind Of water is dangerous 70 drink
Much well water is msde impure by
throwing dirty stops and incl an wash
| irgs OF the hands, or any part OF the body
Of sickly or diseased persons tu the yards
or places near wells. The filthy water
to certain ex ent, penetrates the strata
of the ground where it is thrown, and
when copiOus in descends it conveys
this foul water into the water of the We'll
or wells, and Of course renders IL also
! impure. Sucn water generally generates
| snamalcIlS, bacteria or bacill. TINS
kind Of "ster, when viewed or closely
examined through the medium OF On ex-
ceIent compound microscope, is intelli-
gently observed to contain 8 myriad
Ut those minute microscopic organisms
which, when tezen into the stomach with
the drinking water, generally find their
way into the Intestinal gland, where they
so wonderfully multiply by division or
budding. IS TO generate typhoid fever.
l am now melted by the pure spirit Of
philanthropy to oe dictatorisl, but c0ure-
ously SO. Don't say, 81 know, I know
that the water which l and nv family
drink Is pure" unless you have tested it.
The organic and inorganic impurities of
your spring or well water may greatly
shorten your own life as we'll as that OF
some beloved one near and dear to you
Don't, dear sir, be toolishly uabelieving
ike some Of the wllfully ignorant. Chem
icAl science says: "Test your drinking
water"
"Eirst test-Fill tall glass jar 'with
the water to be tested. Add g few drops
Of sulphuric acid; then add 8 solution Of
potassium permang2nate until the whole
assumes g purp!ish tint. Put il in g warm
place for one hour. II o'gauic impuri-
ties are present, the solution will be de-
colOTized.
"Second test-Fill bottle nearly full
IF drinking water and tiSh ly stopper it.
Set it in q Warm place for several days.
Ii an offensive odor emanates from it, it
is an evidence Of organic Impurities, and
is dangerous to drink "
Though drinking water may he very
cold and somewhat pleasant TO the taste,
vet il may be impure. In summer or
in warm weather, see that the ice is clean
which you then put into your drinking
water. Test this water; no harm will De
done, but harm may thereby be prevented
a part Of the i'm Iurities Of bad drinking
water can be removed by fiIteriDg it
through charcoal and clean gravel. The
tering materials should frequently be
changed.
During part of my visit last summer
o few Of my steunch friends residing
in the healthy and wealthy city Of F9rt
Worth, a pretty blue-eyed girl aboot
fourteen years of sge very politely ana
N Idestly asked me: CHOW do you like
The drinking water of Fort Worth 2" l
answered: SIN small way I have Sc
cretly tested some of it and fad it good
and hope that the efficient city SuthOri-
ries will see to it that It is KEPT good"
With that native simplicity which is so
charming in little blue-eyed girl
of pretty and healthy countenance
she coutinusd her quesiioOing. She
asked: (Which is the purest OF water?"
| Teplied: "Distllled waser and that
natural water procured from dissolved
snow, obtained from mountain Or noun
tsirs situated far away from the smoke |
and vapors OF villages, towns and cities"
With beautiful smile (yee, 6 smile can
really assume q truly beautiful form and
o slight twinkle in the corner Of her blue
right eye, she asked: GLOW pure is the
purest of wsterp" I hesitsted, but st
last, slo Wy replied: "It is so pure, that
when evaporoted, it does not leave SIM
gle stain behind. Water which is direct
ly formed from proportional union of its
gaseous constituents, two volumes Of
hydrogen to one of oxygen, is thus pure"
By an Irresistible impulse then said:
This COW rsation brings TO nay remem-
brance certain passage Of scripture,
which is, "8lessed gre the pure II hearJ
for they shall see God